Gaslight Digest Thursday, October 22 1998 Volume 01 : Number 010
In this issue:
Re: Today in History - Oct. 21
Re: Milverton/Howell
Re: Milverton/Howell & blackmail
RE: Milverton/Howell & blackmail
Thanks
Re: Poe
Etext avail: Paul Heyse's "Little Lisbeth"
CHAT: Joan Hickson
CHAT: Titanic
Chat: Re: Thanks
Re: Milverton/Howell & blackmail
Re: Milverton/Howell & blackmail
Howell/Rossetti
Chat: "In Night and Ice"
Re: Chat: "In Night and Ice"
Re: Chat: "In Night and Ice"
Chat: Peter Pan Redux
Victorian Crime website
Today in History - Oct. 22
Chat: North Sea Nectar
Re: The Case of Mr. Lucraft
Re: The Case of Mr. Lucraft
Re: The Case of Mr. Lucraft
Re: The Case of Mr. Lucraft
Re: The Case of Mr. Lucraft
Re: The Case of Mr. Lucraft
Re: The Case of Mr. Lucraft
Re: The Case of Mr. Lucraft
Re: The Case of Mr. Lucraft
Re: The Case of Mr. Lucraft
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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 12:37:40 -0500
From: Moudry <Moudry(at)uab.edu>
Subject: Re: Today in History - Oct. 21
At 10:41 21-10-98 -0600, Jerry Carlson wrote:
> 1805
> <snip!>
> Born on October 21
> 1772
> Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet.
> 1833
> Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and founder of the
Nobel Prizes
> 1917
> Dizzy Gillespie, jazz trumpeter, famous for Night in
Tunisia and Blue ?n? Boogie
Thanks for the Diz birthday note; something totally unanticipated on
Gaslight. Made my day quite nicely.
Saturnally,
Joe Moudry
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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 13:30:33 -0600
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Re: Milverton/Howell
Ah, yes - I had forgotten that story of Howell. Thanks!
Now that you mentioned the forgery, I vaguely recall that the Jeremy Brett
version of CAM ("The Master Blackmailer") may have included some incidents
related to a painting of a beuatiful woman. Can anybody fill in more details
on this?
Jerry
gmc(at)libra.pvh.org
>>> Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> 10/21 11:42 AM >>>
>There was. Milverton is thought to have been based on Howell, although it
>seems to me both were much more into blackmail than into nonreligious
>resurrection.
To be fair, Howell was authorized by both Rossetti and legal authorities to
resurrect Elizabeth Siddal Rossetti in order to retrieve Rossetti's poems.
It was also largely due to Howell that Rossetti likely finished the
exquisite portrait of Siddal as Beata Beatrix. That he later forged and
stold Rossetti's work is another thing. That he later became a blackmailer
is also another thing. The fact is, Rossetti wanted the poems and Howell
was the only one whom he could trust to retrieve them. Also to be fair,
Howell was extremely discreet in terms of the state of the body and used
great tact to assuage Rossetti's feelings (i.e. he didn't write a
sensationalized account of it for the press).
Deborah
Deborah McMillion
deborah(at)gloaming.com
http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 13:49:33 -0600 (MDT) From: "p.h.wood" <woodph(at)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> Subject: Re: Milverton/Howell & blackmail There was a limerick current about that time which ran: "There is an old person named Howell, Who lays on his lies with a trowel. When he gives up lying It will be when he's dying, For living is lying with Howell." Was this not the man who was found with his throat cut in Glasshouse Street? I seem to recall he met a sticky end, but I may have confused him with the victim of another famous unsolved Victorian murder. Peter Wood
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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 15:47:25 -0500 From: Mattingly Conner <muse(at)iland.net> Subject: RE: Milverton/Howell & blackmail Peter said: . . .Was this not the man who was found with his throat cut . . . Yes, it was. I brought that up when I first mentioned Howell, hoping someone would know something about it. It was a ritualized murder, a Mafia style -- what do they call it? Something about a neck tie? Amazed me. He had his enemies. With heart, Deborah Mattingly Conner muse(at)iland.net http://www.iland.net/~muse "Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the greater the pain." ~Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth
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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 16:50:02 -0400 From: Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net> Subject: Thanks Thanks be to Jerry Carlson for picking up the missing "This Day in History." I was obviously one of the 8 that Jim noted wanted to have the series continue. On a modern note, is PVH a local trauma center? is that why the Wyoming fellow who died from being tied to a fence etc was evacced to Poudre Valley to die? Various people asked me if Wyoming and Laramie had any hospitals or why did the fellow get taken to Colorado. Sorry to take up the bandwidth with a personal question. Linda Anderson
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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 13:51:01 -0700 (PDT) From: John Schilke <schilkej(at)ohsu.EDU> Subject: Re: Poe Oh, yes, indeed. Cf. the Doubleday version of the Holmes canon, p.572. And he was certainly a villainous fellow. John On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, athan chilton wrote: > Charles Augustus Howell, who > >knows how to arrange these things > > Am I dreaming, or was there an unsavory character in a Sherlock story who > was named "Charles Augustus Milverton"? > > athan > ayc(at)uiuc.edu > > >
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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 14:56:14 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Etext avail: Paul Heyse's "Little Lisbeth"
(LISBETH.HTM) (Fiction, Chronos, Scheds)
Paul Heyse's "Little Lisbeth" (1894 ed.)
lisbeth.sht
Here's a stopgap story while I continue tinkering with the
reading schedule. Paul Heyse's "Little Lisbeth" is a short short of
the
Weird genre.
Thanks to Patrica Teter for sending it along.
It is now available on the website and as an ASCII etext
thru FTPmail.
To retrieve the plain ASCII file,
send to: ftpmail(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
with no subject heading and completely in lowecase:
open aftp.mtroyal.ab.ca
cd /gaslight
get lisbeth.sht
or visit the Gaslight website at:
http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/lisbeth.htm
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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 21:56:48 +0100 From: "Susan O'Brien" <sue(at)sjob.demon.co.uk> Subject: CHAT: Joan Hickson My last message was composed with a special showing on the Beeb of 'Murder at the Vicarage' in the background ! - -- Sue O'Brien sue(at)sjob.demon.co.uk
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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 21:55:53 +0100 From: "Susan O'Brien" <sue(at)sjob.demon.co.uk> Subject: CHAT: Titanic Not a fan myself, but the video has just gone on sale in the UK. I have just received a wonderful catalogue of toys which includes a motorised inflatable Titanic and Iceberg - 'You've seen the film, now enjoy the bath.' See http://www.hawkin.co.uk Blatant nostalgia promotion. - -- Sue O'Brien sue(at)sjob.demon.co.uk
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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 15:07:53 -0600 From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org> Subject: Chat: Re: Thanks >>> Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net> 10/21 2:50 PM >>> <Thanks be to Jerry Carlson for picking up the missing "This Day in History." I was obviously one of the 8 that Jim noted wanted to have the series continue.> It seems to be inviting discussion, though (and, my History of Medicine collection now includes the MGH brochure celebrating the Ether sesquicentennial). <On a modern note, is PVH a local trauma center? is that why the Wyoming fellow who died from being tied to a fence etc was evacced to Poudre Valley to die? Various people asked me if Wyoming and Laramie had any hospitals or why did the fellow get taken to Colorado.> It's either because we are a Level II Trauma Center (which I don't think Wyoming has, except maybe in Casper or Jackson - much farther away) or because of our neurosurgeons. Most of the major towns in Wyoming do have small to medium-sized hospitals. Jerry gmc(at)libra.pvh.org
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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 14:48:07 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> Subject: Re: Milverton/Howell & blackmail >There was a limerick current about that time which ran: > "There is an old person named Howell, > Who lays on his lies with a trowel. > When he gives up lying > It will be when he's dying, > For living is lying with Howell." There is also a wonderful rhyme by Dorothy Parker and I'm sorry I don't know the whole thing (anyone with a volume of Dorothy Parker poems?): "Dante Gabriel Rossetti Buried all of his libretti...." Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 21:06:25 -0400 From: "J.M. Jamieson" <jjamieson(at)odyssey.on.ca> Subject: Re: Milverton/Howell & blackmail At 02:48 PM 10/21/98 -0700, Deborah McMillion wrote: > >There is also a wonderful rhyme by Dorothy Parker and I'm sorry I don't >know the whole thing (anyone with a volume of Dorothy Parker poems?): > >"Dante Gabriel Rossetti >Buried all of his libretti...." Dante Gabriel Rossetti Buried all of his libretti Thought the matter over - then Went and dug them up again. Mac, from the 1st printing, December, 1940 of the Pocket Book edition of the 1928 volume _Sunset Gun_ (page 38)
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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 22:16:13 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> Subject: Howell/Rossetti Ha! Found the Rossetti "poem" by Dorothy Parker on the Internet using "Sherlock Holmes", how's that for irony? D. G. ROSSETTI by Dorothy Parker Dante Gabriel Rossetti Buried all of his libretti, Thought the matter over - then Went and dug them up again. Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:05:30 -0400 From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)javanet.com> Subject: Chat: "In Night and Ice" From the London Times, October 22, 1998: A classic Titanic surfaces again Original disaster film was better, and cheaper, writes Nigel Hawkes THE captain peers through his binoculars, throws his right hand up to his head in horror and peers through his binoculars again. Can that really be an iceberg looming ahead? In truth it looks more like shards of ice bobbing about in a bath. But we must be kind to the German film In Night and Ice, for this version of the Titanic story, screened last week at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, was made in 1912, just weeks after the ship went down. There were no computer-generated effects at the time. Leonardo DiCaprio's parents were not even born, let alone Leonardo himself. The film, 40 minutes long, first came to light again in February during the Berlin Film Festival. Prompted by a newspaper article about the missing film, a private German collector rediscovered the reels on his shelves. The Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek then discovered that they had a print, too, and set about its restoration. Night and Ice can hardly compete in size with James Cameron's blockbuster. Yet in one respect this little epic, directed by the Romanian-born Mime Misu, a now-forgotten figure once described in the Berlin press as "the Napoleon of film art", quite outclasses the contemporary Titanic. Nowhere in that gleaming monster do you catch a real whiff of the year 1912: but as the camera catches expectant travellers boarding the liner with their beards and furs, the footage looks eerily and poignantly like actuality shots taken at the dockside. Only later do these travellers emerge as actors, enjoying the high life in the ship's Cafe Parisien, amusing themselves with games on the deck, or wading through comically shallow water to reach the lifeboats after the toy ship sinks. Aside from the dockside location, the film was shot in Chausseestrasse, Berlin, in a studio 18ft x 27ft, next door to the house occupied 40 years later by Bertolt Brecht. Two months after the Titanic sank, Misu's film was finished and submitted to the censors; one month later, it went before the public, though, strangely, no contemporary press coverage can now be found. Perhaps the speed of production is the film's greatest asset. Of course you smile at the period acting style, the vigorous swaying of the interior sets to simulate the ocean roll, or the toy ship's grand collision with the most unthreatening iceberg on record. But this antique film was made in the teeth of shock and grief and it glows with a special poignancy quite beyond James Cameron's reach. Titanic tragedies through the decades 1912 FILM:In Nacht Und Eis TIME: 40 minutes COLOUR: Tinted SOUND: Silent movie BUDGET: Thousands DIRECTOR: Only film to survive by Mime Misu STARS: Anton Ernst, Ruckert, Waldemar Hecker, Otto Rippert CAST/CREW: About 60 AUDIENCE: Few thousand SPECIAL EFFECTS: Toy ship runs into ice cube AWARDS: None CRITICS: No previews exist 1953 FILM: Titanic TIME: 98 minutes COLOUR: Black and white SOUND: Mono DIRECTOR: Jean Negulesco STARS: Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, and Robert Wagner SPECIAL EFFECTS: 20ft- long model of the ship AWARDS: AA Best Story and Screenplay 1958 FILM: A Night to Remember TIME: 123 minutes COLOUR: Black and white SOUND: Mono DIRECTOR: Roy Ward Baker STARS: Kenneth More and Honor Blackman CAST AND CREW: More than 200 speaking parts AUDIENCE: Tepid support at the box office, but boosted by TV and video screenings SPECIAL EFFECTS: Semi- documentary style CRITICS: Won acclaim 1998 FILM: Titanic TIME: 189 minutes COLOUR: TechniColor SOUND: Digital sound BUDGET: $200 million DIRECTOR: James Cameron STARS: Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio CAST/CREW: 1,100 plus AUDIENCE: 68 million SPECIAL EFFECTS: 775ft replica of liner AWARDS: 11 Oscars CRITICS: "Titanic has the power to shake us and touch the soul" ----------------------------------------------------------------- James E. Kearman mailto:jkearman(at)javanet.com http://www.javanet.com/~jkearman Why do you wander further and further? Look! All good is here. Only learn to seize your joy, For joy is always near. --Goethe
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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:51:23 -0400
From: JDS Books <jdsbooks(at)ameritech.net>
Subject: Re: Chat: "In Night and Ice"
Jim,
There was another German film on Titanic made as
anti-British propaganda during WW II. "A Night to Remember"
actually uses some shots from it of a full scale model of the ship
steaming along. The earliest "Titanic" film was a short-short filmed in
America a few weeks after the sinking. It starred an actual survivor
who was an actress, but only some posters from it survive today.
The details of these & other film treatments were in a documentary on
"A&E", called "Beyond Titanic" which ran September 6. I taped it, assuming
I would find time to watch it with more care later & I can extract more
details
if anyone really needs them.
The TV miniseries with George C. Scott as Capt. Smith and Zoro's
Catherine
Zeta Jones in the "Rose" role is available on video, as well as the Fox
"Titanic"
and "A Night to Remember". "A Night to Remember" is also available both on
CD-Rom and on DVD, including a documentary on the making of the film, and
remains
to me the best available film of the sinking. Though they lacked Cameron's
budget, it is
a faithful adaptation of Walter Lord's book, right down to the depiction of
W. T. Stead
calmly reading alone in the first class smoking room while the other
passengers were
scrambling for seats in the boats. Stead, who had campaigned unsuccessfully
for
changes in the Board of Trade life boat regulations since 1886, knew as well
as
anyone aboard that night that most would go down with the ship. It remains
an
incredible story that never fails to move me.
Best in haste,
John Squires
- -----Original Message-----
From: James E. Kearman <jkearman(at)javanet.com>
To: Gaslight <gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA>
Date: Thursday, October 22, 1998 11:10 AM
Subject: Chat: "In Night and Ice"
>From the London Times, October 22, 1998:
>
>A classic Titanic surfaces again
>
>Original disaster film was better, and cheaper, writes Nigel Hawkes
>
>THE captain peers through his binoculars, throws his right hand up to his
>head in horror and peers through his binoculars again. Can that really be
an
>iceberg looming ahead? In truth it looks more like shards of ice bobbing
>about in a bath.
>
>But we must be kind to the German film In Night and Ice, for this version
of
>the Titanic story, screened last week at the Pordenone Silent Film
Festival,
>was made in 1912, just weeks after the ship went down.
>
>There were no computer-generated effects at the time. Leonardo DiCaprio's
>parents were not even born, let alone Leonardo himself.
>
>The film, 40 minutes long, first came to light again in February during the
>Berlin Film Festival. Prompted by a newspaper article about the missing
>film, a private German collector rediscovered the reels on his shelves. The
>Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek then discovered that they had a print, too,
and
>set about its restoration.
>
>Night and Ice can hardly compete in size with James Cameron's blockbuster.
>Yet in one respect this little epic, directed by the Romanian-born Mime
>Misu, a now-forgotten figure once described in the Berlin press as "the
>Napoleon of film art", quite outclasses the contemporary Titanic.
>
>Nowhere in that gleaming monster do you catch a real whiff of the year
1912:
>but as the camera catches expectant travellers boarding the liner with
their
>beards and furs, the footage looks eerily and poignantly like actuality
>shots taken at the dockside.
>
>Only later do these travellers emerge as actors, enjoying the high life in
>the ship's Cafe Parisien, amusing themselves with games on the deck, or
>wading through comically shallow water to reach the lifeboats after the toy
>ship sinks.
>
>Aside from the dockside location, the film was shot in Chausseestrasse,
>Berlin, in a studio 18ft x 27ft, next door to the house occupied 40 years
>later by Bertolt Brecht.
>
>Two months after the Titanic sank, Misu's film was finished and submitted
to
>the censors; one month later, it went before the public, though, strangely,
>no contemporary press coverage can now be found.
>
>Perhaps the speed of production is the film's greatest asset. Of course you
>smile at the period acting style, the vigorous swaying of the interior sets
>to simulate the ocean roll, or the toy ship's grand collision with the most
>unthreatening iceberg on record.
>
>But this antique film was made in the teeth of shock and grief and it glows
>with a special poignancy quite beyond James Cameron's reach.
>
>
>Titanic tragedies through the decades
>1912
>
>FILM:In Nacht Und Eis
>TIME: 40 minutes
>COLOUR: Tinted
>SOUND: Silent movie
>BUDGET: Thousands
>DIRECTOR: Only film to survive by Mime Misu
>STARS: Anton Ernst, Ruckert, Waldemar Hecker, Otto Rippert
>CAST/CREW: About 60
>AUDIENCE: Few thousand
>SPECIAL EFFECTS: Toy ship runs into ice cube
>AWARDS: None
>CRITICS: No previews exist
>
>
>1953
>
>FILM: Titanic
>TIME: 98 minutes
>COLOUR: Black and white
>SOUND: Mono
>DIRECTOR: Jean Negulesco
>STARS: Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, and Robert Wagner
>SPECIAL EFFECTS: 20ft- long model of the ship
>AWARDS: AA Best Story and Screenplay
>
>
>1958
>
>FILM: A Night to Remember
>TIME: 123 minutes
>COLOUR: Black and white
>SOUND: Mono
>DIRECTOR: Roy Ward Baker
>STARS: Kenneth More and Honor Blackman
>CAST AND CREW: More than 200 speaking parts
>AUDIENCE: Tepid support at the box office, but boosted by TV and video
>screenings
>SPECIAL EFFECTS: Semi- documentary style
>CRITICS: Won acclaim
>
>
>1998
>
>FILM: Titanic
>TIME: 189 minutes
>COLOUR: TechniColor
>SOUND: Digital sound
>BUDGET: $200 million
>DIRECTOR: James Cameron
>STARS: Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio
>CAST/CREW: 1,100 plus
>AUDIENCE: 68 million
>SPECIAL EFFECTS: 775ft replica of liner
>AWARDS: 11 Oscars
>CRITICS: "Titanic has the power to shake us and touch the soul"
>
>
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------- >James E. Kearman >mailto:jkearman(at)javanet.com >http://www.javanet.com/~jkearman >Why do you wander further and further? >Look! All good is here. >Only learn to seize your joy, >For joy is always near. --Goethe > >
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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:05:12 -0500 (CDT)
From: James Rogers <jetan(at)ionet.net>
Subject: Re: Chat: "In Night and Ice"
At 11:51 AM 10/22/98 -0400, you wrote:
"A Night to Remember" is also available both on
>CD-Rom and on DVD, including a documentary on the making of the film, and
>remains
>to me the best available film of the sinking. Though they lacked Cameron's
>budget, it is
>a faithful adaptation of Walter Lord's book, right down to the depiction of
>W. T. Stead
>calmly reading alone in the first class smoking room while the other
>passengers were
>scrambling for seats in the boats. Stead, who had campaigned unsuccessfully
>for
>changes in the Board of Trade life boat regulations since 1886, knew as well
>as
>anyone aboard that night that most would go down with the ship. It remains
>an
>incredible story that never fails to move me.
> Best in haste,
>
> John Squires
>>
I watched an airing of "Night To Remember" the other day just to see if
it was as good as I recalled. Not only did it hold up, but entire shots
seemed to me to have been lifted near-verbatim from the film for inclusion
in the Cameron project.
Have I ever mentioned that in Oklahoma at that time it was genrally
understood that the sinking was a matter of God's judgment for all the
sinnin' them rich folks was doin' on that boat?
James
James Michael Rogers
jetan(at)ionet.net
Mundus Vult Decipi
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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:55:46 -0400 From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)javanet.com> Subject: Chat: Peter Pan Redux From The Scotsman Online (http://www.scotsman.com/) Peter Pan, the angry young man Theatre choice: Fairytale gets real SUE WILSON THE notion that many or most traditional fairytales contain a darker, often bloody or sexually uneasy subtext has been increasing in currency ever since Jung's day (with no little subsequent help from the likes of Angela Carter). When it comes to that most famous of modern fairy stories, however, JM Barrie's 1904 classic Peter Pan, it's generally regarded as the ultimate parable of childhood innocence and its inevitable loss. According to actor/director Stephen Bullock, however, this rose-tinted view actually represents a major whitewash of the author's original, far more ambivalent vision, a rewriting foisted on us firstly by the play's early producers, later reinforced by the combined and cumulative effects of pantomime and film adaptations. Even Spielberg's Nineties sequel to Peter Pan, Hook, which cast Robin Williams as the grown-up Peter Pan, was still a simple Disney-styled swashbuckling adventure. "They made Barrie change it quite a lot for its original West End run, had him nice it up really quite substantially," he explains. "The Mermaid Lagoon in Neverland was originally a black lagoon, for instance, while the whole fairy-dust thing was added in as well, because apparently all these parents were complaining that their children were throwing themselves off bunk beds trying to fly. Barrie's view of childhood was actually a lot more realistic and chilling than our Disneyfied perceptions would have us believe, he saw it as really quite a violent, brutal world - look at the way these children hack masses of pirates to death without a qualm." Bullock's solo adaptation from Barrie's text, One Man Peter Pan, pitched squarely at an adult audience and premiering from tonight at Glasgow University's James Arnott Theatre, aims, he says, "to put the blood back" into the story. "I've actually been very faithful to his original, though - more so than any other version I've come across," he says. "It's our popular image of the story that's become so distorted - which is interesting in itself, when you start wondering why." While he makes no overt reference in the piece to any modern-day context, Bullock points to our current anxieties over the sanctity - or otherwise - of childhood as a backdrop lending it extra resonance. "We've got a lot invested, as a society, in the idea that adulthood is the cynical, corrupt part of life, whereas children are intrinsically innocent and pure. But children possess all the basic human instincts and passions, though they often lack the insight or empathy to understand consequences, and it's actually seeing them expressing these kind of fundamental drives, as Barrie explores in Peter Pan, that we find so disturbing." One Man Peter Pan, tonight-24 October, James Arnott Theatre, Gilmorehill Centre, Glasgow, tel: 0141-330 5522/287 5511 ------------------------------------------------------------- James E. Kearman mailto:jkearman(at)iname.com
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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 19:02:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Willis <c.willis(at)english.bbk.ac.uk> Subject: Victorian Crime website The Victorian Crime Conference now has a website at: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/3783/crimeconf.html Enquiries/abstracts welcome! ATB Chris - ---------------------- Chris Willis (Ms) English Department Birkbeck College Malet Street London WC1E 7HX http://www.bbk.ac.uk/Departments/English/pages/~cwillis/ tel: 0171 631 6743 e-mail: c.willis(at)english.bbk.ac.uk
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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 16:02:27 -0600
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - Oct. 22
1824
The Tennessee Legislature adjourns ending Davy Crockett's state
political career.
1836
Sam Houston sworn in as the first president of the Republic of
Texas.
1862
Union troops push 5,000 confederates out of Maysbille, Ark., at
the Second Battle of Pea
Ridge.
1859
Spain declares war on the Moors in Morocco.
1907
Ringling Brothers buys Barnum & Bailey.
1914
U.S. places economic support behind Allies.
Born on October 22
1887
John Reed, American journalist, poet and revolutionary who
witnessed the Russian
Revolution of 1917 and wrote about it in Ten Days That Shook
the World
1903
George Beadle, American biologist
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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 18:34:36 -0400
From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)javanet.com>
Subject: Chat: North Sea Nectar
09:52 AM ET 10/22/98
Salvaged Baltic champagne sparkles at auction
By Paul Majendie
LONDON, Oct 22 (Reuters) -- Champagne connoisseurs looking
for the perfect millennium present on Thursday paid up to 2,420
pounds ($4,091) a bottle for Titanic-era bubbly raised from a
Baltic Sea wreck.
``It's a drink fit for the gods,'' said Claes Bergvall,
leader of a Swedish-Danish diving team which recovered the
sparkling gold treasure from the Swedish ketch Jonkoping in
July.
But after the auction of 24 bottles at Christie's in London,
he confessed: ``I don't have a clue about champagne. It's just
like beer, which I actually prefer. They are both all bubbles.''
The salvage team brought up 2,500 bottles of 1907 Heidsieck
& Co champagne from the Jonkoping, which had been sunk by a
German submarine during World War One off the west coast of
Finland.
It was being shipped to Rauman in Finland with a drinker's
delight on board -- the best brands ordered by the Tsar's army
in Finland, then a Grand Duchy of Russia.
Most of the cargo has been sold through agents to clients
across the world from the United States to Russia. They are said
to include U.S. basketball star Michael Jordan.
But Bergvall and fellow explorer Peter Lindberg decided to
dip their toes in international auction waters with the London
sale.
Christie's reported that the total sale price was 36,300
pounds. ``The average was about 1,500 pounds a bottle. That was
fantastic,'' said Christie's wine director Duncan McEuen.
``This is a wonderfully romantic tale with all the history
attached to it,'' he said.
Among the buyers was Berlin wine dealer Jurgen Drawert, who
said: ``I am going to use it for a wine-tasting group next
year.''
The champagne is the same marque as that stocked aboard the
Titanic when it sank in 1912, four years before the Jonkoping
went to its watery grave.
French experts who tasted the champagne have rated it
exceptional and ideally preserved by the cold, dark Baltic
waters.
Seventeen barrels of Bisquit cognac were not so well
preserved. They are now being treated before also being put up
for sale.
Bergvall and Lindberg found the 1895 ship in 64 metres (210
feet) of water about 25 nautical miles off Finland's west coast
after digging through Swedish and German archives for details of
the vessel and its cargo.
It had lain untouched for more than 80 years until several
bottles were discovered by Bergvall's expedition.
Lindberg will never forget the taste of the champagne from
the first bottle the divers brought up.
``I took the first sip. It tasked like nectar and was very
powerful,'' he told Reuters in an interview.
``We found about 2,500 bottles. Many were destroyed as we
did not know how to preserve them. The corks had been in for 80
years. If you let them dry out, the bottle starts to leak,'' he
said.
The 80 shareholders in Lindberg's and Bergvall's jointly
owned company, The Baltic Wreck Jonkoping AB, stand to receive
about 40 million crowns.
Salvage costs were about four million crowns ($504,000).
``That's a nice profit. I am only 28 years old but nothing so
amazing has ever happened to me,'' said Lindberg.
After recovering their cargo of vintage champagne and
cognac, the treasure hunters left the 25-metre (80 feet)
Jonkoping on the sea bed as it was too badly damaged to salvage.
($1-.5916 Pound)
^REUTERS(at)
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James E. Kearman
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